Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Monday 8.9.2025 / 03:48
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > digital video > video - everything else > deleting files and encoding to smaller sizes
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
deleting files and encoding to smaller sizes
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
prakhar
Newbie
_ 		28. January 2005 @ 23:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok... this might sound stupid but anyways... i copied a copule of VCDs to my computer using ISO Buster with the option of extracting only M2F2 frames .... to prevent my son from watching them I renamed them to the extention .exe i can still watch them using mplayer2 or any other media player BUT I cannot rename or delete them... it gives me a file being used by another program error... i want to delete a few files (each take about 700 MB) and convert a few to DivX/XviD (or any other codec) so they take up less space but retain the original quality...

what do i do??

any help would be appreciated

thanks in advance
[ + quote]
Custom Built
P4 3.2 800 MHz FSB
1024 MB Corsair
120 GB + 120 GB + 20 GB= 260 GB
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB (Keep switching them)
---------------
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic III
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic IV
PS2 SCPH-39001 wi
Advertisement
_ 		__
prakhar
Newbie
_ 		28. January 2005 @ 23:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok... this might sound stupid but anyways... i copied a copule of VCDs to my computer using ISO Buster with the option of extracting only M2F2 frames .... to prevent my son from watching them I renamed them to the extention .exe i can still watch them using mplayer2 or any other media player BUT I cannot rename or delete them... it gives me a file being used by another program error... i want to delete a few files (each take about 700 MB) and convert a few to DivX/XviD (or any other codec) so they take up less space but retain the original quality...

what do i do??

any help would be appreciated

thanks in advance
[ + quote]
Custom Built
P4 3.2 800 MHz FSB
1024 MB Corsair
120 GB + 120 GB + 20 GB= 260 GB
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB (Keep switching them)
---------------
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic III
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic IV
PS2 SCPH-39001 wi
prakhar
Newbie
_ 		28. January 2005 @ 23:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ooops sorry for double post
[ + quote]
Custom Built
P4 3.2 800 MHz FSB
1024 MB Corsair
120 GB + 120 GB + 20 GB= 260 GB
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB (Keep switching them)
---------------
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic III
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic IV
PS2 SCPH-39001 wi
rebootjim
AfterDawn Addict
_ 		29. January 2005 @ 10:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Close Explorer, open a DOS box.
Move to the folder with those .exe's, and rename or delete.
[ + quote]
Black holes are where God divided by zero...
Cheers, Jim
prakhar
Newbie
_ 		29. January 2005 @ 22:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks...i'm able to delete the files :)

What can I do aabout compressing/encoding them??
[ + quote]
Custom Built
P4 3.2 800 MHz FSB
1024 MB Corsair
120 GB + 120 GB + 20 GB= 260 GB
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB (Keep switching them)
---------------
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic III
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic IV
PS2 SCPH-39001 wi
rebootjim
AfterDawn Addict
_ 		30. January 2005 @ 08:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Quote:
convert a few to DivX/XviD (or any other codec) so they take up less space but retain the original quality...
Can't really be done. Divx/Xvid are already compressed. You could redo them in VirtualDub, with a lower bitrate, but you're going to lose quality.
[ + quote]
Black holes are where God divided by zero...
Cheers, Jim
prakhar
Newbie
_ 		1. February 2005 @ 20:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the movies are in mpg format the ones vcd's use... its NOT already in DivX or XviD . I want to encode them using a codec which will result in a better file size
[ + quote]
Custom Built
P4 3.2 800 MHz FSB
1024 MB Corsair
120 GB + 120 GB + 20 GB= 260 GB
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB (Keep switching them)
---------------
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic III
PS2 SCPH-30003 with Magic IV
PS2 SCPH-39001 wi
rebootjim
AfterDawn Addict
_ 		2. February 2005 @ 06:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Get VirtualDub-mpg (not the regular virtualdub).
It will open your mpeg, and allow you to convert to AVI, using any codec on your system.
[ + quote]
Black holes are where God divided by zero...
Cheers, Jim
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
shiroh
Account closed as per user's own request
_ 		2. February 2005 @ 20:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
or virtualdubmod

original VirtualDub can handle mpeg1, which your VCD source is.
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > digital video > video - everything else > deleting files and encoding to smaller sizes
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2025 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork